1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.

No use saying necessity is making a mistake.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.